Conveners
Keynote - III: Materials and Corrosion in Light Water Reactors by Dr. Damien Féron (Conseiller scientifique, France)
- Khaled Al-Athel (Mechanical Engineering)
Damien Féron
(Université Paris-Saclay)
14/11/2023, 13:00
Nuclear Materials
Paper
Since the beginning of nuclear industry, corrosion issues have been a major concern. Less than two years after start-up, stress corrosion cracking occurred on the stainless steel tubing of the steam generator of the prototype for the Nautilus in USA (1953); more recently, last year in 2022, several French Pressurised Water Reactors were shut down due to stress corrosion cracking of stainless...
